[ARC5] Disposition of surplus aircraft, Europe WWII

[Joe Connor]

 I can't answer your question, but the issue brings to mind that compelling scene in the 1946 film, "The Best Years of Our Lives," where Dana Andrews climbs into the bombardier's area of a plane in a boneyard of junked WWI bombers being readied to be scrapped. 

                        Joe Connor    On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 05:47:11 PM EDT, Hubert Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:  
 
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In some Quora discussion one fellow mentioned he had read of US surplus planes in Europe, being burned after end of war.
 
I questioned this. I know about planes in the Pacific area being burned, but the vet told me that Japanese planes were burned.
 
I gather US planes were cannibalized for parts and then bulldozed, or maybe just pushed off the deck.  In Europe i don’t think
 
any plane was burned. There was a metal industry to feed, i mean increasingly after maybe 1947, as Europe came back to life.
 
Do you, reader, know anything about this subject? References?
 
thanks-
 
Hue Miller
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